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Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 1

Note 317 — How the Lady Sabrine daughter of King Locrinus and Elstride, was drowned by Queene Guendoline, the yeare before Christ, 1064.

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An omitted stanza from ed. 1575.

Thus throughe the hoste he bare me to my bane, And shewde the Souldiours what a spoyle he had: “Loke here (quoth he) the litle Princes tane.” And laught, and ran as brutish butcher mad; But my lamenting made the souldiours sad, Yet nought preuailde, the caytife as his pray Without all pitie bare me still away.

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